“Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1%, while the rest increasingly become what is sometimes called “a precariat” — seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity — not only too big to fail, but also ‘too big to jail.’” –Noam Chomsky

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“We are your every day Americans, who are against the corporate greed that has plagued this country, and the politics who allow this greed to occur. We include teachers, college students, labor members, unemployed workers, and the other 99 percent. We are standing in solidarity with friends in New York City, and across the country.” –Occupy Philadelphia

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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edited the anthology Bettering American Poetry 2015 and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

Go Amy , another great blog, I will look at all the stuff on here later . I am off the grab some Vit D rays and excercise. I need to get this Pylori hiccup off my back so I can absorb and enjoy creativity like yours. Blessings Steve.

Oh, if you want to host my link, it is nycmoveon.wordpress.com. My focus has been on interviewing random people at the protest so I can document and proliferate ordinary protester’s views. I tried to use “Send me your links” button, but it does not seem to be working.

Occupy Wall Street still contains many problematic aspects, but it nevertheless presents an opportunity for the Left to engage with some of the nascent anti-capitalist sentiment taking shape there. Hopefully, the demonstrations will lead to a general radicalization of the participants’ politics, and a commitment to the longer-term project of social emancipation. To this end, I have written up a rather pointed Marxist analysis of the OWS movement so far that you might find interesting:

I recently walked through Occupy Sydney and like Occupy Wall Street I am inspired by those that take certain action. It’s very reliant though. Relying on something or someone else to change, I have found, too restrictive and way too difficult. I prefer to change the one thing that I can truly control and that’s my mind. It may not be like a strong protest but at least I am in control and I believe the changes I make will have an effect. I joined the wordpress fraternity and here is my latest blog, a letter to My Mind.http://steveconnorandlife.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/dear-mind/